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Ig Nobel Prizes for Discoveries in Chemistry – The Improbables

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Marc Abrahams Editor, The Annals of Improbable Research



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A few of the  2013  Ig Nobel Prize Winners

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Chemistry Prize Shinsuke Imai, Nobuaki Tsuge, Muneaki Tomotake, Yoshiaki Nagatome, Toshiyuki Nagata, and Hidehiko Kumgai [JAPAN, GERMANY] for...

Chemistry Prize ...discovering that the biochemical process by which onions make people cry is even more complicated than scientists previously realized.

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Physics Prize Alberto Minetti, Yuri Ivanenko, Germana Cappellini, Nadia Dominici, and Francesco Lacquaniti [ITALY, RUSSIA, UK, DENMARK, SWITZERLAND] for...

Physics Prize ...discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond —if those people, and that pond, were on the moon.

Ig® Nobel Safety/Engineering Prize

Safety/Engineering Prize The late Gustano Pizzo [USA] for...

Safety/Engineering Prize ...inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane hijackers...

Safety/Engineering Prize The system drops a hijacker through trap doors, seals him into a package, then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors...

Safety/Engineering Prize ...whence he parachutes to earth, where police, having been alerted by radio, await his arrival.

Ig® Nobel Archaeology Prize

Archaeology Prize Brian Crandall and Peter Stahl [CANADA, USA] for...

Archaeology Prize ...parboiling a dead shrew, and then swallowing the shrew without chewing, and then carefully examining everything excreted during subsequent days...

Archaeology Prize ...all so they could see which bones would dissolve inside the human digestive system, and which bones would not.

A look back   at some past winners...

The Ig Nobel Prize  for Chemistry

Johan Pettersson [Sweden and Rwanda], for solving the puzzle of why, ! in certain houses ! in the town of Anderslöv, Sweden, people’s hair turned green.

The Ig Nobel Prize  for Literature

The US Government   General Accountability Office,  for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends! the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.

The Ig Nobel Prize  for Physics

Joseph Keller [USA],   Raymond Goldstein [USA and UK],   Patrick Warren, and Robin Ball [UK],    for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail.

The Ig Nobel Prize  for Fluid Dynamics

Rouslan Krechetnikov [USA, Russia, Canada] and Hans Mayer [USA], for studying! the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks while carrying ! a cup of coffee.

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